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06-11-2024: Poland boosts EIB’s Ukraine reconstruction fund with €25 million-06-11-2024: Poland’s pharmaceutical sector emerging as powerful economic pillar-06-11-2024: Poland will spend about PLN 10 billion on cyber security in 2025- 2026.-02-10-2024: PARP announces recruitment for a new action supporting SMEs in expanding into foreign markets-02-10-2024: PARP announces a new call for startups from Eastern Polish. Up to PLN 600 thousand for innovative projects-04-09-2024: Revolut-04-09-2024: A new opportunity for young EdTech companies. PARP announces recruitment for the START-UPS ARE US competition-19-07-2024: EU Budget 2025 aims to reinforce funding for Europe's priorities-19-07-2024: The Polish Law on Protection of Whistleblowers-13-06-2024: The call for applications "Accessibility as a chance for development 3" has started-13-06-2024: Start up for new ideas-19-05-2024: National Electronic Invoicing System – KseF Up-date-19-05-2024: The European Commission intends to close Article 7 procedure against Poland-19-05-2024: Poland in the European Union – 20 years of seized opportunities-19-05-2024: Priority Programme "Cogeneration for Industry and Energy Sector" from the Modernization Fund-09-04-2024: Grants for EuroGrants-09-04-2024: PARP announces a call for proposals for SMEs from the HoReCa sector!-28-02-2024: Commission welcomes political agreement on the up to €50 billion Ukraine Facility-28-02-2024: A slow recovery for Polish industry continues despite headwinds-29-01-2024: Commission launches calls for contributions on competition in virtual worlds and generative AI-29-01-2024: Poles over the age of fifty want to open their own business-19-12-2023: Erasmus + 2024 launched by European Commission-19-12-2023: Poland applied for National Reconstruction Plan funds from the European Commission-06-12-2023: European Funds 2021-2027 for entrepreneur-08-11-2023: Minimum wage for labor in 2024-08-11-2023: EU budget 2024: addressing next year's challenges-29-09-2023: "Fashion is still fashionable" – PARP publishes latest industry report-29-09-2023: Competition "Brand promotion of innovative SMEs"-18-08-2023: Another round of government aid for energy-intensive industries-18-08-2023: Foreign trip for young entrepreneurs-17-07-2023: Eastern Poland Programme: 1.2 Automation and robotisation in SMEs-17-07-2023: The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development has launched another call for proposals for the "SMART Path"-15-06-2023: Startup Booster Poland - Smart UP-15-06-2023: Electronic invoice in Poland: from July 1, 2024 mandatory-19-05-2023: Green Credit-19-05-2023: Poland Ukraine cooperation project-19-04-2023: Amendments to the Labor Code [remote work]-19-04-2023: New European funds in Poland first open calls-18-04-2023: May 2, 2023 is the deadline for the annual tax return of individuals for 2022-30-01-2023: European Funds : first grant of 2023 , we are ready for you-05-01-2023: New Ordinance of the Council of Ministers regarding the Polish Investment Zone-19-12-2022: EU to invest €13.5 billion in research and innovation for 2023-2024-30-11-2022: Erasmus+ 2023 call launched-29-11-2022: Maximum electricity price for SMEs-29-11-2022: Core is a sponsor of second Italian - Polish Aerospace Forum-29-11-2022: Commission welcomes agreement on EU Annual Budget 2023-23-11-2022: Europe Situation November 2022-17-11-2022: Support European Commission for Ukrainian agricultural exports-28-09-2022: Support for entrepreneurs in relation to the energy market situation-15-09-2022: Minimum wage increases in 2023-25-08-2022: Bank accounts may be inspected by tax offices-10-08-2022: Increase in the daily subsistence allowance-20-07-2022: The European Commission approved a Polish scheme to support companies in context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine-06-07-2022: European Commission adopts €76.5 billion Partnership Agreement with Poland for 2021–2027-28-06-2022: Poland Prize acceleration program – an incentive for foreign startups-07-06-2022: EU approves Poland's National Recovery Plan-06-06-2022: Zatrudnimy Ksiegowa / Ksiegowego-25-05-2022: The Sejm adopted a bill introducing the automation of settling matters by the KAS-11-05-2022: European Funds for Modern Economy 2021-2027 – first calls for proposals-27-04-2022: The government has adopted a bill reducing personal income tax to 12%-13-04-2022: Changes in the calculation of health insurance premiums-23-03-2022: Act on assistance to Ukrainian citizens adopted-09-03-2022: 0% VAT rate for goods and services related to helping victims of the conflict in Ukraine-24-02-2022: VAT taxation of financial services-10-02-2022: Extended deadlines for submitting financial statements and CIT declarations-26-01-2022: Anti-inflation package 2.0. submitted to the Senate-12-01-2022: A relief for the middle class-16-12-2021: Polski Lad: Changes in Withholding Tax-08-12-2021: Polski Lad - further discounts for companies implementing innovations-30-11-2021: Anti-inflation package: government proposal to combat excessive price increases in Poland-16-11-2021: Polski Lad - changes in the calculation of the health insurance premium from 2022-27-10-2021: Establishment of an employment relationship by a labor inspector-13-10-2021: The Polish Sejm is currently working on an important amendment to the Polish Code of Commercial Companies-29-09-2021: National System of e-Invoices available from 202214-09-2021: Digitalization voucher – one of the last opportunities for SMEs to obtain subventions for IT investments from EU funds 2014-2020-27-08-2021: Termination of the employment contract by e-mail-16-08-2021: Legal regulations regarding remote work-28-07-2021: No tax collection on remitted PFR subsidies-15-07-2021: Doing business remotely only with trusted companies-30-06-2021: Trade secrets and how to protect them-18-06-2021: New provisions on remote work in Poland-26-05-2021: EU Digital COVID Certificate before summer vacation-12-05-2021: Tax changes from 1 May 2021-27-04-2021: Sustainable Finance and EU Taxonomy-16-04-2021: Programme for supporting investments of significant importance to the Polish economy for the years 2011-2030.-31-03-2021: Commission launches European Innovation Council-26-03-2021: Relocation of our headquarters-18-03-2021: The first strategic plan of Horizon Europe for 2021-2024 was adopted-24-02-2021: SURE INSTRUMENT - 2021 UPDATE-11-02-2021: Distribution of European funds 2021-2027-28-01-2021: From January 2021 the waste register only in electronic format-18-01-2021: Financial Package PFR 2.0 - the application process has started-22-12-2020: Protective influenza vaccinations without PIT-08-12-2020: The European Commission has approved tax reliefs for entrepreneurs-24-11-2020: Changes in sanitary restrictions in Poland-10-11-2020: Anti-crisis support for entrepreneurs-28-10-2020: Split payment in the new JPK_VAT declaration-19-10-2020: Act on electronic delivery approved by the Sejm-30-09-2020: JPK_V7 declaration - when to use GTU codes?-16-09-2020: Employee Capital Plans - a long-term savings system-28-08-2020: Strengthening of the role of supervisory boards in companies-19-08-2020: New regulations regarding the Polish Investment Zone and economic zones-28-07-2020: EU Recovery Fund approved by the European Council-16-07-2020: Register of VAT payers - changes from 1 July 2020.-29-06-2020: New anti-crisis law signed by the President-19-06-2020: Extension of the deadline for the presentation of the new Standard Audit File-Tax-01-06-2020: Registered pledge as an instrument against insolvency-25-05-2020: Changes in regulations included in Anti-crisis Package 3.0-30-04-2020: Support instruments for entrepreneurs included in the Financial Package-27-04-2020: Principal measures of Anti-crisis Packages-20-03-2020: The Polish government has presented the anti-crisis package-17-03-2020: Mandatory registration in the Central Register of Actual Beneficiaries-12-03-2020: New legal regulations related to the coronavirus-10-03-2020: Government’s decisions on the coronavirus-07-03-2020: Special email address for coronavirus-affected companies-26-02-2020: New terms for payments in commercial transactions-14-02-2020: Further benefits for entrepreneurs – “Maly ZUS Plus”-30-01-2020: Corporate law-24-01-2020: New account number for payments of PIT, CIT and VAT-25-06-2018: The whole of Poland will be a single large economic zone.-27-03-2018: Submeasure 3.2.1 Research to the market 2018-27-03-2018: Submeasure 3.2.2 Credit for technological innovations within OP Smart Growth-24-08-2017: Submeasure 3.2.1 Research to the market within OP Smart Growth (call dedicated to medium-sized cities)-23-08-2017: Submeasure 3.2.1 Research to the market-20-07-2017: Submeasure 1.1.1 Industrial research and development works conducted by enterprises 07.2017-19-07-2017: Submeasure 3.2.1 Research to the market-13-06-2017: Submeasure 1.1.1 Industrial research and development works conducted by enterprises - small R&D projects-08-06-2017: Submeasure 1.1.1 Industrial research and development works conducted by enterprises - Large R&D projects-06-06-2017: Measure 1.2 ROP Lubelskie Targeted Research-14-04-2017: Measure 2.1 Support for investment in R&D infrastructure of enterprises-12-04-2017: Submeasure 1.1.1 Industrial research and development works conducted by enterprises-11-04-2017: Submeasure 3.2.1 Research to the market-20-03-2017: Grants from Regional Operational Programs 2014-2020-09-03-2017: Transfer pricing - a priority for the Ministry of Finance-02-03-2017: Who is obliged to provide Intrastat information?-23-02-2017: Intra-Community acquisition of goods vs VAT-10-02-2017: Go to Brand - calls open-06-02-2017: New deadlines for Smart Growth OP-30-01-2017: EU non-repayable funds-23-01-2017: 2017 EU funds - applications-19-01-2017: Transfer pricing - important changes from the 1st of January 2017-18-01-2017: Special CIT 15% tax for small entrepreneurs from 2017-17-01-2017: Payments via payment account - new limit-13-01-2017: Job order contracts from 2017-04-11-2016: New obligation for companies: transfer data from the VAT register monthly in the SAF-T structure-17-10-2016: Extension of control rights of the State Labor Inspection-26-04-2016: Grants for investments and R&D projects-
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About Us


Core is an M&A and corporate finance firm with derivative activity in business development and management consulting.
Core is an independent advisor focused on supporting enterprises with coverage across the Central and Eastern Europe. We have been present in Poland & CE Europe since 1994. We are interested in creating a personalized relationship with customers.
They are assisted by our consultants in all activities, providing always a tailor-made service. We take care of their investments with flexibility and fairness, placing dialogue at the heart of the relationship.
Some of our results:
  • More than 300 enterprises ever assessed
  • 4.000 of new workplaces
  • 44 EU Funds investment projects successfully concluded by our Team 
  • 100% of successful Special Economic Zones (SEZ) projects

Management Team


Donato Di Gilio
C.E.O. and Head of M&A Department

Donato was born in Varese in 1962 and graduated in Law from Milan University. He has worked in Poland since 1992, founding Core sp. z o. o. in 1994; Donato was co-founder of the Italian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Poland in 1996. He has been President of the Italian Chamber since 2009 to 2013 and Vice president and member of the Board of Advisers of the same institution from September 2015 to September 2017. Donato primarily deals with M&A and Business Development services and has successfully assisted more than 300 companies (large and SMEs) in the process of investment in Poland. Currently he sits on various directorial and supervisory boards. Besides being a native speaker of Italian, Donato speaks also Polish, English and French.

Piero Cannas
Partner

Since October 2013 Piero has been appointed for three cadences (2013-2015 / 2015 – 2017 and 2017 up to now) as President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Poland. He has developed his professional career as consultant in the fields of Organization, Internationalization and M&A. He was Partner and Managing Director of Conceive Asia Pts Ltd in Singapore where he has directly guided the Singapore and Shanghai offices. He has been Partner, Founder and Member of the Board of the Global Strategy in Milan and President of the Board of the Global Strategy Poland. He has graduated in Civil Hydraulics Engineering from Cagliari University with a PhD in Environmental Engineering. In addition to native Italian language, Piero speaks also English.

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